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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1333403
Summary
Turret clock with two bells. Located on the inside of the wall which has the statue of St.George and its bell on the outside, the clock and bells are fitted in the roofspace and supported on a beam bearing the painted inscription “Vmbræ Transitvs est tempvs nostra” and there is a painted scale on the wall (c.f. Top Gallant) where the fall of the weights indicates the time on a “table des heures”. The clock – an unsigned and undated late C17 or early C18 two-train birdcage movement with recoil escapement and countwheel-controlled hour striking [only cursorily examined and recorded here] – is said to have come from Dennington in Suffolk. However, this seems unlikely as a clock of c.1691 preserved in the church at Dennington is noted and illustrated in the supplement (1979) to Haggar and Miller Suffolk Clocks & Clockmakers (1974) p.193 and pl.89 and 89A). The bells, at any rate, are clearly not original to the clock whatever its provenance. In notebook SNO.MISC.974 when discussing Unicorn and its contents Charles Wade states 'The old turret clock came from Laverton' (pg 74)